Image Gallery: Elephant Seals of the Antarctic

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A shedded elephant seal with a sensor on its head . The sensor valuate the animate being ’s location , the depth of the dives , the water temperature and its salinity .

Marion Island

Marion Island , where a settlement of southerly elephant seals reside , is the bigger one of the two Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean . It belong to South Africa .

Male Elephant Seal

A lurking manly elephant seal of approval . The animate being put side by side on the beach and wait for their fur to shed . There is rarely space for everyone and if one cachet moves , the others get strain and start to bark .

Sun-Bathing Animals

Elephant seals and queen penguin are sun bathe at Trypot Beach on Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean .

Bulky Seals

After localise the detector on the animate being ’s heading the biologists measure its torso size of it . Elephant seals can hold out the frigid waters due to their thick bed of blubber . It can be as fatheaded as nigh 6 inches ( 15 centimeters ) and accounts for one third of the creature weight of approximately three measured tons .

A shedded elephant seal with a sensor on its head.

Marion Island, where a colony of southern elephant seals resides, is the bigger one of the two Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean. It belongs to South Africa.

male elephant seal

Elephant seals and king penguin are sun bathing at Trypot Beach on Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean.

After placing the sensor on the animal’s head the biologists measure its body size. Elephant seals can withstand the cold waters due to their thick layer of blubber. It can be as thick as nearly 6 inches (15 centimeters) and accounts for one third of the

Young African elephant bull flares it�s trunk and tusks in the air.

An orange sea pig in gloved hands.

A desert-adapted elephant calf (Loxodonta africana) sitting on its hind legs.

A photograph of elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

an aerial image showing elephants walking to a watering hole with their shadows stretching long behind them

Iceberg A23a drifting in the southern ocean having broken free from the Larsen Ice Shelf.

In this aerial photo from June 14, 2021, a herd of wild Asian elephants rests in Shijie Township of Yimen County, Yuxi City, southwest China�s Yunnan Province.